Project Manager - Water Sector

Lead High-Impact Water Infrastructure Projects in Scotland


Are you a Project Manager ready to drive the successful delivery of complex, multi-disciplinary water sector projects ?


Stantec is looking for an experienced Project Manager to join our growing team in Edinburgh or Glasgow . This is a pivotal role where you will manage projects across the entire lifecycle, ensuring technical excellence, financial success, and exceptional client service during a period of significant investment and growth (AMP cycle).


You will lead the planning, execution, and delivery of a diverse portfolio of water sector projects, ensuring alignment with Stantec's Project Management Framework and client expectations.


You will own the end-to-end leadership of projects, encompassing the planning, execution, and closure while covering scope, schedule, and quality. A critical aspect of your role involves stakeholder engagement , where you'll build and maintain robust relationships with clients, consultants, contractors, and internal teams to ensure a seamless project flow.


Finally, you will prepare and present regular, clear reporting updates and documentation to a range of internal and external audiences, all while upholding and promoting strict compliance with health, safety, and environmental standards across all project activities.


About You


You MUST have proven experience delivering projects within the UK Water Sector to be considered for this role.

• Education: A degree in Engineering, Environmental Science, Project Management, or a related discipline.
• Knowledge: Strong understanding of project management principles, tools, and methodologies.
• Contract Experience: Experience working with NEC contracts and delivering projects using a risk-based approach is highly beneficial.
• Professional Certification (Advantageous): A professional certification such as PMP or APM.
• Technical Background (Ideal): A background in delivering detailed engineering services, either through managing complex infrastructure projects or collaborating with contractors.

Why Join Stantec?


This is an exciting time to join an Award-Winning consultancy with a clear commitment to achieving ambitious environmental goals. We invest in our people and believe in finding the right work-life balance for everyone.


Your Career Path & Benefits:

• Clear Progression: Benefit from an individualized development plan and clear organizational structure outlining your pathway for progression, so you always know where your career is heading.
• Hybrid Working: Enjoy flexi-working and a hybrid working pattern to help you find the right balance between office collaboration and personal life.
• Comprehensive Benefits: Private medical insurance, group income protection, and life assurance are included as standard.
• Culture: Join a culture of inclusivity where we celebrate diversity and put "doing what's right" at the forefront of everything we do.

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About Stantec


The Stantec community unites more than 34,000 employees working in over 450 locations across 6 continents. We have been working with our clients and communities in the UK for over 150 years. We plan, design, deliver and manage the development and infrastructure needed to support the creation of sustainable, healthy and prosperous communities.


Our teams provide effective and relevant solutions, translating our clients' vision into valued consents, deliverable plans for projects and programmes, and efficient designs for delivery, based on technical excellence and deep market insights. We deal with today's challenges, but also keep a fairer, better tomorrow in sight, looking at how we deliver clean growth, support radical changes in our economy and meet the needs of future communities.


Stantec provides equal employment opportunities to all qualified employees and applicants for future and current employment and prohibit discrimination on the grounds of race, colour, religion, sex, national origin, age, marital status, genetic information, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity or gender expression. We prohibit discrimination in decisions concerning recruitment, hiring, referral, promotion, compensation, fringe benefits, job training, terminations or any other condition of employment. Stantec is in compliance with laws and regulations and ensures equitable opportunities in all aspects of employment.


Building an inspired, inclusive work environment that attracts, supports, and develops world-class talent is a crucial key to our success. If you are excited by this role but worry that your experience doesn't exactly align, we encourage you to apply.


At Stantec we want you to perform your best at every stage of the recruitment process and are committed to ensuring it is accessible to all. If you need any support or require adjustments to be made then please contact [email protected] we will talk to you about how we can support you.


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